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The Atel Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$202k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.3MHealth$452kEducation$427kPhilanthropy$330kPublic Benefit$42kEnvironment$40kHuman Services$38kEmployment$24kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASIAN ART MUSEUM$100,000
Individual grant recipient$48,926
FRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES INC$16,679
STOSIK FOUNDATION$12,000
STERN GROVE FESTIVAL$10,000
HAWAII STATE JR GOLF ASSOCIATION$5,537
MCAH$5,000
ARMED SERVICES YMCA HI$2,500
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UCSF FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%USC ASSOCIATES: $22k → 16%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 19%STOSIK FOUDATION: $13k → 10%NAVAL POST GRADUATE SCHOOL: $10k → 10%PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $10k → 10%RO FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 19%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 19%SF MOMA: $59k → 10%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 19%SF MOMA: $27k → 10%STRAUB FOUNDATION: $41k → 9%SF MOMA: $25k → 10%FRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES INC: $41k → 9%T GEORGE AND VOILET PARIS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%STRAUB FOUNDATION: $41k → 9%ASIAN ART MUSEUM: $280k → 10%STRAUB FOUNDATION: $41k → 9%ASIAN ART MUSEUM: $225k → 10%STOSIK FOUNDATION: $21k → 9%SF SYMPHONY: $154k → 10%FRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES INC: $17k → 9%ASIAN ART MUSEUM: $135k → 10%ASIAN ART MUSEUM: $105k → 10%STOSIK FOUNDATION: $12k → 9%ASIAN ART MUSEUM: $100k → 10%SF SYMPHONY: $90k → 10%FRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES INC: $10k → 9%SF SYMPHONY: $65k → 10%SF SYMPHONY: $57k → 10%SF SYMPHONY: $55k → 10%ASIAN ART MUSEUM: $50k → 10%SF SYMPHONY: $49k → 10%SF MOMA: $40k → 10%ASIAN ART MUSEUM: $29k → 10%SF SYMPHONY: $25k → 10%SF MOMA: $20k → 10%SF SYMPHONY: $19k → 10%SF MOMA: $10k → 10%STERN GROVE FESTIVAL: $40k → 10%STERN GROVE FESTIVAL: $15k → 10%STERN GROVE FESTIVAL: $15k → 10%CPMC FOUNDATION SUTTER HEALTH: $25k → 10%CPMC FOUNDATION SUTTER HEALTH: $25k → 10%SF BOTANICAL GARDEN: $18k → 10%SF BOTANICAL GARDEN: $13k → 10%JDRF: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
OR
CA
VA
SC
DC
HI
OK
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 16 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
23

Total granted

$2.7M
$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+16%

Still filing today

50%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    6× · 2017–2023 · $181k · revenue +37%
  • SF
    Straub Foundation
    3× · 2020–2023 · $123k · revenue +152%
  • SG
    Stern Grove Festival Association
    8× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -9%
  • UA
    USC ASSOCIATES
    one grant, 2017 · $22k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $13k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

Education
2
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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3
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
4
Wt Stanford Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Stanbridge University Foundation
Education
6
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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7
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
8
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Philanthropy
9
The Goldman Sachs Foundation
Philanthropy
10
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

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11
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Florida State University Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Global Women Foundation and Band of Brothers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $923,675 · Arts & CultureASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCOSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $181,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTStern Grove Festival Association: $115,000 · Arts & CultureStern Grove Festival Association+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureIndividual grant recipient: $514,558 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $206,000 · OtherFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITYUCSF: $200,000 · OtherUCSFCPMC FOUNDATION SUTTER HEALTH: $50,000 · OtherSF BOTANICAL GARDEN: $40,000 · Other+19 more: $137,287 · Other+19 moreThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $200,000 · EducationThe Florid…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…+2 more: $10,150 · EducationStraub Foundation: $123,000 · Health+3 more: $4,046 · HealthFRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES INC: $68,004 · PhilanthropySTOSIK FOUNDATION: $36,000 · PhilanthropyRO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyMDRC: $23,500 · EmploymentGlobal Women Foundation and Band of Brothers: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$1,224,675Other$1,147,845Education$260,150Health$127,046Philanthropy$126,504Employment$23,500Housing & Shelter$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $923,675 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $181,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetStraub Foundation: $123,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetStern Grove Festival Association: $115,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES INC: $68,004 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOSIK FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetMDRC: $23,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $5,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Women Foundation and Band of Brothers: $5,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetT GEORGE PARIS AND VIOLET SUNDAY PARIS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF WAIPAHU HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUIPMENT LEASING & FINANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,046 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
  • Who funds Straub Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Stern Grove Festival Association ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HAWAII CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STOSIK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MDRC ↗
  • Who funds RO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Global Women Foundation and Band of Brothers ↗
  • Who funds Sonoma Valley Authors Festival ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds T GEORGE PARIS AND VIOLET SUNDAY PARIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF WAIPAHU HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUIPMENT LEASING & FINANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

First Insurance Compa…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable FoundationHI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Atel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Atel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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